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DSpace Committers have autonomous control over the code and are also the primary support team for DSpace. The primary responsibilities of Committers are:

• Maintain the codebase; Committers are the only individuals who can actively change/commit to the codebase public codebase
• Review all code contributions/changes to ensure stability, etc
• Merge/accept community code contributions
• Help to resolve bugs or security issues within codebase
• Help to provide ongoing support to community developers and users (via Slack, Mailing Lists, IRC, mailing lists, etc etc.)
• Perform and manage new releases based on the Technical Roadmap (from the Technology Advisory Group). roadmap.

The Committers group is a meritocracy -- members are added from the pool of volunteer contributors based on merit. Anyone may be nominated as a Committer by anyone else. Only existing Committers may vote to add a nominated person Typically, nominations are made by existing Committers on the basis of sustained contribution to DSpace that indicates an ability to fulfill Committer responsibilities. Examples of such contribution are participation in discussions on mailing lists, Slack, IRC etc, participation in developer meetings, reporting bugs, help with testing/reviewing of code, and contribution of code via pull requests. A majority of current Committers must approve any nominations to the Committers group.

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The following individuals are current active Committers for DSpace open source software:

• Pascal-Nicolas BECKER - Technische Universität Berlin / The Library Code
• Andrea BOLLINI - CINECA 4Science
• Ben BOSMAN - @MIRE Atmire
• Terry BRADY - Georgetown UniversityPeter DIETZ - Longsight
• Tom DESAIR
• Mark DIGGORY - @MIRE Atmire
• Tim DONOHUE - DuraSpace (Project Tech Lead)
• Richard JONES - Cottage Labs
• Claudia JÜRGEN - University Library of Dortmund
• Art LOWEL - Atmire
• Bram LUYTEN -  @MIRE Atmire
• Ivan MASÁR (aka helix84)João MELO - Lyncode
• Luigi Andrea PASCARELLI - - CINECA4Science
• Hardy POTTINGER - University of Missouri UCLA Library Systems
• Richard RODGERS - MIT Libraries
• Andrea SCHWEER - University of Waikato ITS
• Kim SHEPHERD - University of Auckland Library
• Kostas STAMATIS - The National Documentation Centre (EKT)
• Keiji SUZUKI
• Robin TAYLOR - University of Edinburgh
• Graham TRIGGS - Symplectic
• Jeffrey TRIMBLE - Youngstown State University
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• Kevin VAN DE VELDE - @MIRE Atmire
• Mark WOOD - Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

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DSpace committers attending the Open Repositories Conference 2018 in Bozeman, MT.

Emeritus Committers

Emeritus Committers are those who, for one reason or another, are no longer able to contribute code or time to DSpace on a regular basis. They are still members of the Committers Group, but are currently acting in an advisory role within the DSpace development community. As such, while Emeritus Committers may participate in active votes, their votes are considered advisory in nature.

We wish to recognize the contributions each of these individuals has made to DSpace software over the years. Their code contributions and guidance have played an integral part in helping to make DSpace what it is today.

• Peter DIETZ (previously at Longsight)
• Jim DOWNING - (previously at University of Cambridge)
• Sands FISH - Harvard (previously at MIT libraries)
• Keith GILBERTSON - (Virginia Tech University Libraries)
• Richard JONES (Cottage Labs)
• Stuart LEWIS - University of Edinburgh  (previously at University of Auckland and University of Edinburgh)
• Brad MCLEAN - (previously at DuraSpace)
• João MELO (Lyncode)
• Gabriela MIRCEA - (previously at University of Toronto)
• Scott PHILLIPS - (previously at Texas Digital Library)
• Richard RODGERS (previously at MIT Libraries)
• James RUTHERFORD - (previous at HP)
• Kostas STAMATIS (previously at The National Documentation Centre (EKT))
• Larry STONE -   (previously at Harvard University)
• Keiji SUZUKI
• Robert TANSLEY - Google (Google)
• Robin TAYLOR (previously at University of Edinburgh)
• Graham TRIGGS (previously at Symplectic and DuraSpace)
• Jeffrey TRIMBLE (Youngstown State University)
• Scott YEADON (Scott YEADON - The Australian National University)
• Aaron ZECKOSKI - (previously at Unicon)

Committer Discussions / Meetings

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